Photos: Odd homes around the world

CaptionShipping containers

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Potential buyers stand with an agent on the balcony of a three-bedroom home made from four old shipping containers in Sydney. Potential buyers stand with an agent on the balcony of a three-bedroom home made from four old shipping containers in Sydney August 1, 2005. Priced at around A$140,000...

Potential buyers stand with an agent on the balcony of a three-bedroom home made from four old shipping containers in Sydney. Potential buyers stand with an agent on the balcony of a three-bedroom home made from four old shipping containers in Sydney August 1, 2005. Priced at around A$140,000... (David Gray/Reuters)

Treehouses are seen on the Nine Ladies site in Stanton Lees, Derbyshire, northern England, March 25, 2004. The 32 acre site has been occupied for the past four years by the protestors, who are fighting to prevent the ancient quarry from being massively expanded to provide over three million...

Treehouses are seen on the Nine Ladies site in Stanton Lees, Derbyshire, northern England, March 25, 2004. The 32 acre site has been occupied for the past four years by the protestors, who are fighting to prevent the ancient quarry from being massively expanded to provide over three million... (Kieran Doherty/Reuters)

A view of about 70 dome houses, which were built by U.S. based Domes for the World, for villagers who lost their houses to last year's earthquake in Sumberharjo village, near Indonesia's ancient city of Yogyakarta, May 8, 2007.

A view of about 70 dome houses, which were built by U.S. based Domes for the World, for villagers who lost their houses to last year's earthquake in Sumberharjo village, near Indonesia's ancient city of Yogyakarta, May 8, 2007. (Dwi Oblo/Reuters)

A model sits in a bathtub inside a house constructed entirely of ice as part of a promotion for a German bank in Berlin December 19, 2005. The house is made of some 1,000 ice blocks, with all interior appliances, furnishings and decoration encased within or made from ice.

A model sits in a bathtub inside a house constructed entirely of ice as part of a promotion for a German bank in Berlin December 19, 2005. The house is made of some 1,000 ice blocks, with all interior appliances, furnishings and decoration encased within or made from ice. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)

Hong Kong architect Gary Chang rests in a hammock inside his 32-square-metre apartment in Hong Kong January 28, 2010. After three decades in the same boxy dwelling Chang grew up in, he has come up with an innovative answer to the increasingly cramped lives of many urban dwellers -- the science...

Hong Kong architect Gary Chang rests in a hammock inside his 32-square-metre apartment in Hong Kong January 28, 2010. After three decades in the same boxy dwelling Chang grew up in, he has come up with an innovative answer to the increasingly cramped lives of many urban dwellers -- the science... (Bobby Yip/Reuters)

Whether out of necessity, artistic expression or just to be 'different,' people have built homes out of many different things and in many unusual ways -- and tourists love them! Here are some recent and archive images of unusual homes around the world, including those built upside-down, in...